May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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You Are Boring →
yourmonkeycalled:
Here’s the full text of a piece I wrote for The Magazine a few months ago. I really enjoyed writing it, and would like to thank Marco once again for publishing it there. If you haven’t checked out The Magazine yet, you should. Anyway, here’s why you’re a total snooze:
Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and...
January 2013
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You do not exist.
Coketalk getting metaphysical on us. Good sign.
coketalk:
At any given moment, you do not exist. Your body exists, temporary though it may be. Still, you are not your body. You are merely an electrochemical process of your body. The continuity of your separate self is manufactured every few milliseconds by a hunk of warm grey meat between your ears. In the time it takes you to read this...
December 2012
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Taskrabbit, Uber, drones, high-frequency trading, austerity, and this: the natural endpoint of algorithmic capitalism. Cheap humans. Just-in-time people. A generation inside the machine, so drunk and indebted that it will be their lasting fame. An airbnb of the flesh. Impersonate the machine.
Each of these things is a result of tool use rather than collaboration, of unequal power relationships,...
November 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering.”...”
– The Vomit Moment via @bfeld (via reecepacheco)
Galt goes on to say ‘I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one’s soul and a permanent scar across one’s existence.’
Fighting pain is a great American past time, one that I myself have...
“I’ve been thinking a lot about trending topics on Twitter. And it seems like...”
– 10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
Joining the Ftrain.com facebook group was the best decision I’ve made all week.
“Anger fills us with edgy energy and makes us want to do something. Pop...”
– Anger and Buddhism
I’ve been thinking about anger recently.
Like many New Yorkers, I’m guilty of exploiting anger as a source of creative energy. It’s mostly a hidden process, easy to rationalize, with an endless stream of injustice and absurdity just a click away, (or if you...
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“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the...”
– Clay Christensen (via brycedotvc)
I met a guy on the bus the other day who said “If you can think to ask the question, the answer is already inside you.” He was a therapist, so he was talking about emotional stuff, but its fun to consider that the same thinking could apply to larger problems.
One...
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The Ethics of NYC Cyling
Some fun dialogue has been happening regarding cycling in NYC recently.
First, the ethics of cycling and traffic signals: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/if-kant-were-a-new-york-cyclist.htm?_r=2
And a counter-argument by a finance blogger: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/05/why-its-not-ok-for-cyclists-to-run-red-lights/
And the unofficial moderator:...
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July 2012
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Endless.fm →
My friends and former colleagues at 8tracks, RJ & Garth, made this. It’s Google + MTV (when MTV meant music videos.) It’s great.
June 2012
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May 2012
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““During the last third of the twentieth century,” according to Robert Putnam in...”
– How Bad Is It? – The New Inquiry
The hum has been so persistent that most people don’t even realize it’s there. Looking at my own upbringing and my adult life, I see that the driving narratives have been work, individuality, and independence. While these are healthy things in the...
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WatchUma Thurman’s father is a smart dude. Looking forward to seeing him speak at the Tibet house on Wednesday.
“The insertion of a tool like a cell phone into our experience reconfigures the...”
– Circle of Presence – The New Inquiry
This really nails it. (Sorry.)
Sexpigeon: parislemon: Will Apple make a wrist... →
parislemon:
Will Apple make a wrist device? I don’t know. But they should at the very least be thinking about it.
All I know is that at least 50 times a day I reach in my pocket to see why my phone just buzzed. A new email? A DM? An iMessage? Some sports score alert? Instagram? Path?…
My finest line of code today:
viewsfm:
.display {
display: none;
}
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April 2012
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“The picture certainly looks like future events influence the past, a view any...”
– Quantum decision affects results of measurements taken earlier in time
In unrelated news, I just bought this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Experiment_with_Time
How can you not love this nature of reality stuff?
WatchInstagram Team Mix
In case you were wondering what a billion dollars sounds like.
“When conformity was regarded as a grave threat, seeking proofs of uniqueness was...”
– Facebook in the Age of Facebook – The New Inquiry 